Amulya Malladi - ProfilesArchive

About Me

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Book reviews:
Captivating...an intelligent, absorbing novel...
-The Boston Globe
A cinematic journey through late-twentieth-century India.
- Booklist
An honest look at how a young Hindu woman, torn between two cultures, reconnects with her family and, more important, with herself.
- Starred Review, Library Journal
The Mango Season touches on a very human conflict with delicacy and humor.
- The Washington Times
No mean achievement for a first-time novelist.
- Chitra Divakaruni, Los Angeles Times
A complex exploration of love, recrimination and forgiveness...Malladi's subject is...compelling.
- TIME
Who am I:
I was born and raised in India and moved to the United States when I was 20 years old. After living in the United States for several years, I now live in Copenhagen, Denmark with my husband and two sons.
My fourth novel, Song of the Cuckoo Bird was released by Ballantine Books on December 27, 2005. I'm currently working on my fifth novel, tentatively titled, The Sound of Language, which is set in Denmark.
You can contact me at www.amulyamalladi.com .
Read my blog All About Books & Life.

My Interests

Reading, writing, reading, writing...there seems to be an unhealthy pattern here.

I'd like to meet:

Elizabeth I, Chanakya, Mother Teresa, Amitabh Bacchan, V.S. Naipaul, Oprah Winfrey, Carl Hiassen, Robert B. Parker, Sarah Dunant, Brad Pitt...and many, many others.

Music:

Depending upon the time of day and mood.

Movies:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Casablance, The Last of the Mohicans, Room With a View, XXX (the one with Vin Diesel), The Thomas Crown Affair, Gandhi, The Usual Suspects...

Television:

Homicide - Life on the Street - the very best show of all times! Grey's Anatomy, Sex and the City, Frasier, Law & Order (all of them), CSI (all of them), The Daily News with John Stewart...I live in Denmark we don't get to see all the shows.

Books:

Catch-22, A House for Mr. Biswas, The Birth of Venus, all the Spenser novels, The Other Bolyen Girl, The Curious Incident with the Dog at the Night Time, The Jane Austen Club...this list will probably change and often.

Heroes:

I am going to with a list of contemporary heroes: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (former Dutch MP), Naser Khader (an MP in Denmark), Angelina Jolie, Bono, Scott Neeson (of the Cambodia children's fund), Nelsom Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi

My Blog

THE SOUND OF LANGUAGE is now on sale!

I absolutely dislike the day of publication, especially when you live in Denmark and the book comes out in the US. I also am absolutely excited when a book of mine comes out, even if I live in Denmark...
Posted by Amulya Malladi on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:58:00 PST

Win an advanced copy of THE SOUND OF LANGUAGE

Send an email to me about your first experience of tasting honey to win an advanced reading copy of The Sound of Language. The winner will receive the ARC as soon as it is available a month or so befo...
Posted by Amulya Malladi on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:48:00 PST

Get free and signed bookplates

Dear Friends: Signed copies of books always find a special place on my book shelves (okay, so they're not organized right now and everything is a mess - but if they were organized the above s...
Posted by Amulya Malladi on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:37:00 PST

Immigrant Life, Part V

So, this is how it works in Denmark for a foreigner who's married to a Dane. I get residency, which I have to reapply for every year or every two years. Until this year it took about a month or two fo...
Posted by Amulya Malladi on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:10:00 PST

How to get published?

I get numerous emails from writers who want to know how to get published and if I'd like to read their work. Since I have two kids, a fulltime job and deadlines of my own, I can't read anyone else's w...
Posted by Amulya Malladi on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:11:00 PST

Where do you want to go next?

This is turning out to be a fabulous summer&so good that I haven't needed a jacket since the end of May. It took a while for the weather to get in tune with the calendar, but it's been worth the wait....
Posted by Amulya Malladi on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:16:00 PST

Marriage proposals by email!

The other day I was watching a show on BBC Food with this gay-looking Indian guy whose name I can never remember. He has a show called Coconut Coast, and he was cooking prawn curry of some kind with a...
Posted by Amulya Malladi on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:16:00 PST

World Refugee Day

I guess everyone saw the Angelina Jolie CNN interview (I must admit, I'm a bit of a fan). I just saw the previews but I have been thinking a lot about refugees and their lives as I am supposed to on W...
Posted by Amulya Malladi on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:17:00 PST